Paul Schreiber paulschreiber

hi, i'm daniel. i'm a 15-year-old with some programming experience and i do a little bug hunting in my free time. here's the insane story of how I found a single bug that affected over half of all Fortune 500 companies:

say hello to zendesk

If you've spent some time online, you’ve probably come across Zendesk.

Zendesk is a customer service tool used by some of the world’s top companies. It’s easy to set up: you link it to your company’s support email (like [email protected]), and Zendesk starts managing incoming emails and creating tickets. You can handle these tickets yourself or have a support team do it for you. Zendesk is a billion-dollar company, trusted by big names like Cloudflare.

Personally, I’ve always found it surprising that these massive companies, worth billions, rely on third-party tools like Zendesk instead of building their own in-house ticketing systems.

your weakest link

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

local installation of Elasticsearch for WordPress VIP Go infrastructure

Update, 11/2022:

Apparently none of this will work with Elasticsearch versions greater than 8.0. See elastic/homebrew-tap#126 (comment). The alternative seems to be to use Docker, or since it's a big system either way might as well switch to VVV.

Previous instructions

These are basic instructions, and I'm sure could be tightened up.

macOS 10.15 Catalina Setup

An easy to refer to document for setting up macOS 10.15 Catalina.

Previous Setup Gists

My previous macOS / OSX setup gists:

Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite - https://gist.github.com/suzannealdrich/d240c4741052b5db732a

ANSI Escape Sequences

Standard escape codes are prefixed with Escape:

Ctrl-Key: ^[
Octal: \033
Unicode: \u001b
Hexadecimal: \x1B
Decimal: 27

FFmpeg cheat sheet

A list of useful commands for the FFmpeg command line tool.

Download FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Full documentation: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

Basic conversion

Maintaining Java Installs on macOS Using Homebrew Cask

Recently, I upgraded my MacBook Pro from a old, trusty Yosemite to Sierra, and reluctantly had to clean out the old JDK versions I had accumulated over a few years. I also wanted to have a Java 9 JDK to play around with the new module system and API’s.

Good news is that, for a while now, you have been able to install and upgrade multiple versions of JDK using only your shell, without having to deal with Oracle’s graphical installers.

To install Java from scratch, install Homebrew Cask cask-update (you need to have Homebrew already installed) first, then install Java using Cask:

brew tap buo/cask-upgrade & brew tap caskroom/versions
brew cask install java8

	// 3D Dom viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM as a stack of solid blocks.
	// You can also minify and save it as a bookmarklet (https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-bookmarklets/)
	(() => {
	const SHOW_SIDES = false; // color sides of DOM nodes?
	const COLOR_SURFACE = true; // color tops of DOM nodes?
	const COLOR_RANDOM = false; // randomise color?
	const COLOR_HUE = 190; // hue in HSL (https://hslpicker.com)
	const MAX_ROTATION = 180; // set to 360 to rotate all the way round
	const THICKNESS = 20; // thickness of layers
	const DISTANCE = 10000; // ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

	/**
	* IntesisHome Connect
	*
	* Author: ERS
	* based off device work by Martin Blomgren
	* Last update: 2019-12-14
	*
	* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 'License'); you may not
	* use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy
	* of the License at:

	default['sshd']['sshd_config']['AuthenticationMethods'] = 'publickey,keyboard-interactive:pam'
	default['sshd']['sshd_config']['ChallengeResponseAuthentication'] = 'yes'
	default['sshd']['sshd_config']['PasswordAuthentication'] = 'no'